Tag Archives: Soldering

PC-3000 Flash. Monolith pinout determination guide. Variant 1

Posted on 04/18/2017 by ACELab team

Hi all! Before we will start, a small description: This article was planned as a short guide for monolith pinout research. The main idea of this article is not to study step-by-step how to search pinout in all possible cases, … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. Monolith pinout determination guide. Variant 2

Posted on 12/29/2016 by ACELab team

This familiarization article doesn’t contain nuances of technical procedure and can’t cover ends and outs of pinout determination. So if you don’t have practice in monolith soldering then we advise to play for safety and don’t start it. This process … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. How to convert USB drive to IDE interface

Posted on 06/28/2016 by ACELab team

In this article we would like to talk about old 1.8″ Samsung drive HS25YJZ model name. This is real case of old Samsung drive which was solved by presented method. Probably you say: “Why I need convert it to IDE if … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Soldering of SATA connector to SAMSUNG SPINPOINT USB PCB

Posted on 12/25/2015 by ACELab team

We get many questions from our customers about how to determine the points where to solder SATA connector on SAMSUNG Spinpoint USB drive. Here is the easiest method. There are two types of USB PCBs: 1. With separate SATA-USB bridge;

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PC-3000 Flash. How to recover data from a monolith (microSD card)

Posted on 10/12/2015 by ACELab team

Nowadays a lot of modern NAND flash devices use a new type of architecture, where the interface, the controller and memory chips are integrated into one common ceramic layer. We call it Monolithic structure. Until recently, all memory cards like SD, … Continue reading →

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